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XII General Population and Housing Census, 2000 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2000
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Reference ID
MEX_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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School attendance (MX2000A_ATTEND)

Data file: MEX2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 303
End: 303
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="MX00A420 MX00A421 MX00A422 MX00A423 MX00A424 MX00A425 MX00A426 MX00A427">Ask only if this person is five years old or more<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX00A427">14. Attendance<br /><br />Does this person go to school? Circle only one answer.<br /><div class="i1">1 Yes [1] (Continue with question number 16)<br />2 No [2]</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Yes, attends school
2 Does not attend school
9 Not specified
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="MX00A427"><span class="em">14. School Attendance</span><br /><br />If the person goes to school to study in any of the following educational levels: preschool, primary, secondary, preparatory or high school, technical or commercial school, professional (university, technological, school for teachers, among others), masters or doctorate (post-graduate), or rather, to the open school system, or adult education, consider them as attending school.<br /><br />If they go to courses for literacy (only to learn to read and write), beauty, carpentry, handicrafts, etc., consider them as not attending school.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person currently attends school.
Universe
Mexico 2000: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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